Page 1 of Oscar for Best animated feature film of the year

For those who had not noticed: the list was
"Ice Age" (20th Century Fox)

"Lilo & Stitch" (Buena Vista)

"Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" (DreamWorks)

And the Winner Is "Spirited Away" (Buena Vista)

"Treasure Planet" (Buena Vista)

Spirited Away is by Hayao Miyazaki the director of Princess Mononoke. Our friends at Play have it for sale R1 on 15 April
http://www.playserver4.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R1&title=113996

One of his eary films Castle in the Sky(1986) is also released the same day.

Needless to say I shall be posting one of my long winded reviews when they come out.

Tony Myhill

but is it an un-disneyfied version or is it like Monoko was, cos we all know what disney is like for butchering japanese animated films.

floyd

An interesting point - but there is only one 'Spirited Away'. The DVD has both the English language track as well as the Japanese. Strangely enough Walt Disney were one of the production companies that financed the film and as such John Lassiter of Pixar is down as Executive Producer.

Mind you Disney may pull the DVD release - the original US cinema release was in a massive 26 screens, so the film did not take a lot of money, however, overnight news says:

"CartoonResearch.com reports that the Mouse House will be putting this film into re-release starting this Friday, April 28, 2003, on over 800 screens!! that`s about 6 times what they had the film on during the end of September, and is about 1/4 of the amount of screens they normally put their films on (like `Treasure Planet` and `Piglet`s Big Movie`)."

You never know but you can hope 'Spirited Way' may just turn up at a multiplex near you. Albeit with the English track.

Tony Myhill

This item was edited on Tuesday, 25th March 2003, 12:58